Lead Technical Architect - Palantir

Overview

The Sr. Technical Engineer in the Analytics Platform team provides enterprise ownership and governance for shared data and ontology components in Palantir, ensuring they are well-managed, reusable, and fit for long-term scale. The role coordinates ontology change management, standards enforcement, health monitoring, stakeholder communication, and the translation of enterprise needs into robust Foundry components.

What you'll do

• Own the architecture, governance, and strategic direction for shared data and end-to-end capabilities in Palantir.
• Serve as the senior consultant for enterprise/shared objects, actions, metadata, and architectural exceptions.
• Define ownership, lifecycle, decision rights, and accountability models for shared components.
• Provide architectural oversight of Palantir Foundry platform operations, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Own platform management and governance, including access control, Foundry API-based automation, and administrative support.
• Provide product architecture consultation for new solution designs and optimization of existing implementations, aligned with industry’s best practices.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, reusable, and maintainable technical architectures.
• Lead architecture assessments, design reviews, technology evaluations, and solution recommendations across the Foundry ecosystem.
• Guide teams through implementation, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, reference architectures, and governance principles.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, integration impacts, and opportunities for reuse before execution.
• Support delivery teams in resolving architectural challenges and ensure successful implementation of approved designs.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of new platform offerings and releases by assessing capabilities, advocating for change requests, and driving timely, transparent implementation.
• Define and govern enterprise standards for data modelling, ontology design, metadata, security, documentation, and reuse.
• Drive adoption of architecture principles and best practices across delivery teams and consuming squads.
• Establish health checks for shared components covering usage, performance, data quality, security, and deprecation needs.
• Own authoritative documentation for end-to-end components, including applications, definitions, ownership, lifecycle, and usage guidance.
• Monitor adoption, quality, risk, and technical debt to guide continuous improvement and investment.
• Communicate architectural direction, governance decisions, risks, and business impacts to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Lead change enablement for major ontology, data-platform, and Foundry capability changes.
• Facilitate alignment across product, engineering, data, architecture, security, and business teams.
• Translate business priorities into scalable, reusable, and governed ontology and data-platform capabilities.
• Partner with product owners, data stewards, architects, and engineering leaders to establish common enterprise concepts.
• Ensure enterprise components support interoperability, scalability, maintainability, and long-term business value.
• Guide teams in balancing delivery speed with architectural integrity, platform sustainability, and total cost of ownership.
• Mentor technical engineers and architects and raise architecture maturity across the organization.
• Define the architecture and priorities for automated workflows, controls, and observability within Palantir Foundry.
• Sponsor real-time health metrics for proactive management of ontology quality, platform performance, adoption, and risk.
• Use operational insights to identify systemic issues, prioritize improvements, and enhance platform governance.
• Safeguard platform health through proactive monitoring and analytics, improving visibility, standardization, value realization, and overall system reliability.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Understanding of Palantir platform capabilities – Permissions & Controls, Data scheduling, ETL, Ontology Management, Downstream applications (Workshop, Slate, Map, Etc.).
• Ability to leverage Palantir Foundry tools and functionalities to build scalable and robust data solutions that meet business requirements.
• Ability to design and develop data integration pipelines within Platform (Palantir Foundry) to ingest, transform, and integrate data from various sources.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as PySpark, Python, typescript, or Scala.
• Experience with scripting languages and data manipulation tools to automate tasks and optimize data workflows within Platform (Palantir Foundry).
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.

Nice to have

• Good knowledge of Platform Management, Data Engineering & Architecture, AI, ML, ETL, Application Development Experience.
• Excellent academics.
• Results-oriented, high energy, self-motivated.
• High level understanding of Platforms and GCP Cloud architecture.

Details

• Location: Powai, Mumbai, MH.